Tax Quotes

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. (Quote by - Plato)

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten (Quote by - Lord Bramwell)

There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. (Quote by - Voltaire.)

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)

There are two systems of taxation in our country: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. (Quote by - Honorable Learned Hand)

The haggis and European tax law have much in common. They both involve bloody processes, the end results are a mystery and those of a squeamish disposition should not get involved in the making of either. (Quote by - Anon)

Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

We have from time-to-time complained about the complexity of our revenue laws and the almost impossible challenge they present to taxpayers or their representatives... Our complaints have obviously fallen upon deaf ears. (Quote by - Arnold Raum)

Benjamin Franklin said nothing is certain but death and taxes: but at least death doesn't get worse every year. (Quote by - Anon)

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour. (Quote by - Fritz Zwicky)

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. (Quote by - Grover Norquist)

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)

Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. (Quote by - Mark Sanford)

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. (Quote by - Geraldine Ferraro)

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. (Quote by - Larry J. Sabato)

Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country. (Quote by - Jon Porter)

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. (Quote by - Shimon Peres)

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing. (Quote by - Jilly Cooper)

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. (Quote by - John B. Robinson)